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기존에 The Atlantic 편집장을 대화방으로 초대해 후티 공습계획을 공유했던 유출 건 외에도, 피트 헤그세스가 아내와 형제, 변호사 등이 포함된 대화방에 마찬가지로 공습계획을 공유했다고 하네요. 

헤그세스는 해당 정보가 기밀이 아니고, 언론 대응을 위한 단순한 비공식 조율이라고 떠들고 있습니다. 

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헤그세스 국방장관, 기밀 정보 '시그널' 채팅으로 유출 의혹…펜타곤 내부 혼란 가중

피트 헤그세스 미 국방장관이 미 중앙사령부(USCENTCOM)의 보안 통신망에서 획득한 예멘 공습 관련 기밀 정보를 암호화 메시지 앱 '시그널(Signal)'을 통해 가족과 지인들에게 공유한 사실이 드러났습니다. 해당 채팅에는 그의 아내, 형제, 변호사 등 12명 이상이 포함되어 있었으며, 공유된 내용에는 전투기 출격 시간, 폭탄 투하 시점 등 민감한 작전 세부사항이 포함된 것으로 알려졌습니다 .​

이는 지난 3월, 헤그세스 장관이 고위 정부 관계자들과 함께 참여한 또 다른 시그널 채팅에서 유사한 정보를 공유한 사건에 이은 두 번째 유출 사례로, 당시에는 실수로 언론인이 포함되어 논란이 일었습니다. 이로 인해 국방부 감찰관이 조사를 개시하였으며, 이번 추가 유출로 인해 조사 범위가 확대될 전망입니다.​

헤그세스 장관은 해당 정보가 기밀이 아니며, 단순한 비공식 조율 내용이었다고 주장하고 있습니다. 그러나 전직 국방장관 리언 파네타는 이러한 정보 공유가 "전례 없는 심각한 보안 위반"이라고 지적하며, 해당 정보의 구체성으로 볼 때 기밀로 분류되었어야 한다고 강조했습니다 .​Defense News

이번 사건은 국방부 내부의 혼란을 가중시키고 있으며, 일부 고위 보좌관들이 해임되거나 직무에서 배제되는 등 조직 내 불안정성이 심화되고 있습니다. 또한, 군 내부에서는 헤그세스 장관의 리더십에 대한 불만이 고조되고 있으며, 일부 장교들은 조기 퇴역을 고려하고 있는 것으로 전해졌습니다 .​AP News

백악관은 헤그세스 장관에 대한 지지를 표명하고 있으나, 민주당과 일부 공화당 의원들은 그의 사임을 요구하고 있습니다. 이번 사건은 미 행정부의 정보 보안 관리와 고위 관료의 책임 문제에 대한 심각한 우려를 불러일으키고 있습니다.

Hegseth pulled info from secure channel for Signal chats: Report

Hegseth pulled info from secure channel for Signal chats: Report

By Tara Copp, AP

 Apr 23, 2025, 02:02 AM

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike details he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central Command, according to reports. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike information he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and dozens of others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central Command, raising new questions as to whether the embattled Pentagon head leaked classified information over an open, unsecured network.

NBC News first reported that the launch times and bomb drop times of U.S. warplanes that were about to strike Houthi targets in Yemen — details that multiple officials have said are highly classified — were taken from secure U.S. Central Command communications. A person familiar with the second chat confirmed that to The Associated Press.

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The information posted in the second chat was identical to the sensitive operations details shared in the first chat, which included members of President Donald Trump's National Security Council, the person said.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal for speaking to the press.

It's the second chat involving Hegseth to be called into question

This is the second chat group where Hegseth posted the Yemen airstrike information. The first leaked Signal chat accidentally included the editor of The Atlantic and has caused an inspector general investigation in the Defense Department.

Hegseth has not directly acknowledged that he set up the second chat, which had more than a dozen people on it, including his wife, his lawyer and his brother Phil Hegseth, who was hired as a senior liaison to the Pentagon for the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, the secretary blamed the disclosure of the second Signal chat on leaks from disgruntled former staff.

Hegseth has aggressively denied that the information he posted was classified. Regardless of that, Signal is a commercially available app that is encrypted but is not a government network and not authorized to carry classified information.

“I said repeatedly, nobody is texting war plans,” Hegseth told Fox News on Tuesday. “I look at war plans every day. What was shared over Signal then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordinations, for media coordinations and other things. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning.”

Former defense secretary calls it a ‘serious’ breach

Based on the specificity of the launch times, that information would have been classified, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the AP in a phone interview.

“It is unheard of to have a Secretary of Defense committing these kind of serious security breaches,” said Panetta, who served during the Obama administration, and who also was director of the Central Intelligence Agency during Obama’s term. ”Developing attack plans for defensive reasons is without question the most classified information you can have.”

The news comes as Hegseth has shaken up much of his inner circle. He is said to have become increasingly isolated and suspicious about whom he can trust, and is relying on an increasingly smaller and smaller circle of people.

In the last week he has fired or transferred six of his inner support circle, including Hegseth aide Dan Caldwell; the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, Colin Carroll; and Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick.

Those three were escorted out of the Pentagon as the department hunts down leaks of inside information, and in his “Fox and Friends” interview Tuesday, an agitated Hegseth accused those staff — whom he had worked with and known for years — of “attempting to leak and sabotage” the administration.

Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that chief of staff Joe Kasper would be transitioning to a new position. Former Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell is also temporarily shifting to a more direct support role for Hegseth, and former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot announced he was resigning last week, unrelated to the leaks. The Pentagon said, however, that Ullyot was asked to resign.

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